Oakland, Sunday, October 9, 2016: Vivian and Sandy's Excellent Adventure: Family Research Travel in Hungary and Romania

[Janice Sellers janicemsj@gmail.com]

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San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society

Topic: Vivian and Sandy's Excellent Adventure: Family Research Travel
in Hungary and Romania
Speaker: Vivian Kahn

Sunday, October 9, 2016
Oakland FamilySearch Library
4766 Lincoln Avenue
Oakland, CA 94602

Doors open 12:30 p.m.; program begins 1:00 p.m.

Vivian Kahn will talk about the trip that she made to Hungary and
Romania in 2015 with Sandy Malek, coordinator of the H-SIG Maramaros
Records project, to participate in a gathering of descendants of
families from Sziget, Maramaros. Her presentation will cover their
experiences doing on-the-ground research and meeting members of their
extended families from eastern Hungary and the formerly Hungarian
counties of Szatmar and Maramaros in Romania. Vivian will share tips
for locating and learning about the places where your families lived
in Hungary and Transylvania and provide an overview of resources
available for research in Maramaros from JewishGen's Hungary database
and other resources.

Meetings are free and everyone interested is welcome to attend. Light
kosher refreshments will be served. For more information, please
visit http://www.sfbajgs.org/.

Janice M. Sellers, Vice President and Programming
San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society
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